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Akkuyu / Russia Delivers Steam Generator Set For First Turkey Reactor

By Kamen Kraev
2 October 2020

$20bn station will have four Generation III+ VVER-1200 units
Russia Delivers Steam Generator Set For First Turkey Reactor
A steam generator being unloaded near the Akkuyu nuclear power station site in Turkey. Courtesy Akkuyu Nuclear JSC.
Russia’s Atomenergomash has delivered all four steam generators for Unit 1 of the Akkuyu nuclear power station under construction in southwest Turkey, according to project owner Akkuyu Nuclear JSC.

Akkuyu Nuclear said in a statement that the 365-tonne steam generators were unloaded from a cargo ship to a storage area where the quality of the equipment and its documentation will be assessed by a commission before acceptance.

In a pressurised water reactor, the steam generators act as heat exchangers where water carrying heat generated from the nuclear reaction is used to turn demineralised water into steam.

The $20bn Akkuyu nuclear power station, the first commercial nuclear power station in Turkey, is being built near Mersin on the country’s southern Mediterranean coast under a contract signed with Russia in 2010.

The station will have four Generation III+ VVER-1200 units, with the first expected to come online in 2023 and a further unit starting every year afterwards.

Earlier this week, Russia said it had shipped the reactor pressure vessel for Unit 1 at Akkuyu.

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, construction of Akkuyu-1 began in April 2018 and of Akkuyu-2 in April 2020.

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